Carpenter again turned directly to Howard Hawks for The Thing, a loose remake of Hawks and Christian Nyby’s 1951 monster movie The Thing From Another World, about researchers in a remote frozen ...

Campbell's story expanded upon the trope of shapeshifting monsters by injecting ... adaptation of Campbell's work is John Carpenter's 1982 cult classic "The Thing," which is, perhaps, one of ...

Hitting theaters in 1982, John Carpenter's masterclass in building tension and suspense, The Thing, was not a critical or commercial success at the time but slowly became recognized as one of the ...

On the hit TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charisma Carpenter played Cordelia Chase, a member of the Slayer-led Scooby Gang who regularly fought monsters and other things that go bump in the night.

Yet The Thing and its cast manage to give each of ... one of the most likable characters to ever appear in a Carpenter film. The first assimilation of the film is also the biggest question mark.